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Aerospace engineer working to make aircraft greener & safer.

He/him. 🇺🇲

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2026-08-14 11:27:45 UTC

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Unfortunately I an inbox-infinity sort of person.

2026-08-14 11:26:43 UTC

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I feel that, too. And it seems like New Outlook has completely nerfed searching, and I have a terrible time finding emails that arrived even last week.

2026-08-14 11:16:21 UTC

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I need a way to search Teams and email at the same time, because I cannot remember which channel I saw something on.
More generally I feel overwhelmed with all the different texting, chatting, and social media channels.

2026-08-07 13:57:07 UTC

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I'm sure it's far beyond my comprehension, but I often yearn to understand how structures like this get built by cells that somehow just know what to do.

2026-08-07 13:49:06 UTC

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Maybe it's just my bad habit, but I've been told I talk much louder when wearing ANC headphones.
I think I'm subconsciously reacting to background noise coming through the mics of other people on the call and the lack of hearing my own voice.
I have Jabra Elite 85h.

2026-05-31 14:38:37 UTC

As a male I don't know how I feel about having low emotional intelligence.

2026-05-16 17:58:04 UTC

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Somehow the title text is removed. Obviously it should be "camelflage".

2026-04-27 03:05:33 UTC

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@trending/116474435027376024
When you leave the fasten seatbelt sign on for 5 hours.
#note10ph…2czm

2026-03-15 14:48:59 UTC

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Do you mean to include plain-automation bots?
I think those can be useful in some cases.
But I agree that LLMs disguised as humans harassing humans is certainly bad.

2026-03-14 14:53:54 UTC

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I kinda wonder how many data centers are in SoCal because power is pretty expensive.

2026-03-14 13:28:34 UTC

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Meanwhile...
https://files.mstdn.plus/media_attachments/files/116/227/762/674/417/496/original/13ca44d4367ac42c.jpg

2026-02-21 15:07:44 UTC

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I've been using Markor on my phone for my too-due list, and I'm worried about losing it when Google locks down Android.
If you're using something structured like todo.txt format, then can a simple Python script push it to Excel?

2026-01-11 13:04:22 UTC

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In the US, even a short plumber service call can be quite expensive.
@npub15am…hmr6

2026-01-07 12:26:02 UTC

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Remember when a glacier's pace was like mm per day? Now it's like a meter per hour.

2025-12-19 01:58:13 UTC

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Remember in the 90s when JPEG loaded fuzzy and then got more and more detail?

2025-11-13 22:51:24 UTC

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Are you in need of a latitude adjustment?

2025-10-10 12:44:25 UTC

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Do you think all the generations of conventional genetic modification seeking traits for appearance and useful behavior, we may have inadvertently caused some firmware glitches that lead to these familiar patterns of naughtiness?
Or do wolves do this for some reason?

2025-09-24 14:26:34 UTC

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Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use recursion.” Now they have n+1 problems.

2025-08-31 13:27:44 UTC

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Cities really ought to have higher capacity transportation than cars.

2025-08-31 13:22:29 UTC

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Product ideas: autonomous drone that launches from you car roof to scout for parking.

2025-07-01 13:46:15 UTC

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Drag panning with inertia
Scroll wheel zoom
Pinch-zoom on mobile
Double click zoom
Zoom to area (shift-drag)
Keyboard navigation
Events: click, mouseover, etc.
Marker dragging
(No swiping!)

2025-06-28 15:35:56 UTC

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My kid just graduated highschool and an internship at 🦨. He's inspired to design airplanes, so he wants to get into RC. Is this a good starting spot?
https://files.mstdn.plus/media_attachments/files/114/761/725/101/586/248/original/228dd53be2ed875f.jpg

2025-06-27 03:15:30 UTC

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Would it be helpful to put a bit of a low pass filter on the slow rate data but play the animation as a faster rate?
Like the motion of the needles give you some intuitive information.

2025-06-22 14:47:31 UTC

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Solstice sunset?

2025-06-15 14:26:17 UTC

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I remember every fall at my university in the Midwest, a hundred ginko trees would drop their fruit on the campus.
Stinky stinky ginko fruit.
But the brilliant yellow leaves were wonderful.

2025-05-13 11:31:18 UTC

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I'm starting to plan a trip to Germany (and Netherlands, Switzerland) and I want to mainly ride trains instead of flying or driving. Is it foolish?

2025-05-08 01:54:58 UTC

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https://files.mstdn.plus/media_attachments/files/114/469/718/931/436/123/original/8173622aac72c623.png

2025-05-06 18:19:33 UTC

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Oh, I thought the rigorous tech development of the buckthorn-blaster was the fun part.

2025-05-06 18:08:13 UTC

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How about a drone with computer vision to seek out the buckthorn and zap it with a laser.
Pew pew pew!

2025-05-06 16:10:02 UTC

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Is the runway incursion warning system based on ADS-B or something else?

2025-05-01 20:41:58 UTC

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Yikes

2025-04-29 13:13:11 UTC

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Do Minnesotans have a word for snow/mosquito mix? ❄️➕🦟

2025-04-05 15:40:13 UTC

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Luck!

2025-03-29 15:36:38 UTC

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Are you sure it's the enclosure hardware limitation and not the file system?

2025-03-29 13:28:15 UTC

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Some friends tell me that gangs are doing a lot of human trafficking. I think ICE is taking a huge risk wearing plain clothes and masks and taking people like this:
https://youtube.com/shorts/8ijBr-Uvwx8?si=7i6GrEgc4MnHOVZx
They could easily be mistaken for a human trafficking gang.

2025-03-29 13:10:11 UTC

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So what happens when ICE shows up in plain clothes with no warrant in a "stand your ground" state?
How do citizens know they are being kidnapped by this particular privileged mob and not a regular gang?

2025-03-19 01:38:38 UTC

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Nah, he knew he couldn't prove the contrapositive.

2025-03-19 00:20:43 UTC

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English is hard. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.

2025-03-11 23:55:31 UTC

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This incident has been reported to Colonel Panic.

2025-03-11 23:54:39 UTC

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Abort, retry, fail? (Y/n)

2025-03-05 16:56:30 UTC

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All the clowns at my work are woefully unqualified according to this standard. 😆

2025-02-25 19:50:33 UTC

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Do you have any recommendations for news in English about Netherlands, domestic news and NL perspective on world news?
Coming from an American who is thinking of moving there.
🇺🇸🔜🇳🇱

2025-02-21 12:46:06 UTC

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I was thinking of a GoFundMe to get a lawyer for them.

2025-02-21 12:42:52 UTC

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Are they going to make the proprietor pay for the new sign?

2025-01-07 21:08:30 UTC

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Lol, that globe is molded so her head always has to be always fully tilted up.
@npub1jcy…20yu

2025-01-07 15:38:49 UTC

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Why does the red guy have a space helmet but his aviatrix doesn't?

2025-01-01 23:51:11 UTC

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Recently I've been thinking about super light indoor flyers and what's the smallest scale that could be a UAV that does something interesting.

2024-12-27 14:55:52 UTC

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Last time I looked at the stats, motor vehicles were more a risk in the US than firearms.
European visitors should be advised that US infrastructure is generally dangerous for walking and biking.
@npub1n7d…q49z @npub165c…tdlq

2024-12-03 02:22:55 UTC

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I think the preview image is ironic.
https://files.mstdn.plus/media_attachments/files/113/586/503/899/774/167/original/5b7526cff4b09c19.jpg

2024-11-30 16:14:29 UTC

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Nice. That seems useful.
Funny you should say "feed my family" because I have this recurring dream that I have to CAD and 3D print parts for an aeroponics garden to literally feed my family.
It's a sort of anxiety dream because I can barely CAD, never got a 3D printer, and I'm certainly no gardener.

2024-11-25 13:48:58 UTC

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I have had a terrible time time-stamping video accurately. Also, the action cameras I know don't take an extenal trigger for the shutter, so there's always some interpolation to do with the flight computer logging.
Finally, all the action cameras seem to be rolling shutter. The vibration of the drone causes the video to have "jello effect". So I'm trying out global shutter cameras.

2024-09-20 18:41:19 UTC

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A supernova is one hell of a starting gun!

2024-08-05 21:05:37 UTC

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Civil engineers tend to be concrete thinkers. Sometimes you gotta let your imagination flow. Also, air molecules.